Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-07-01 | Page 4 | Reduction in Freight Rates

' REDUCTION IN FREIGHT RATES. Today marks the going Into effect I or freight rate reductions In the Unit- ! ed States. Had the railroad strike J been averted, business could have ' looked forward to encouraging condi I lions, but the labor unrest will more than overcome the optimism which l,Jghi have been derived from the '"height reductions, fu., in.or some time the country has aianifetted disapproval of the heavy .ncrease in railroad rales and many lines ol industry have suffered. The in per cent reduction offers some relief re-lief but no part of the country will beiiefii more than the west which has long hauls on nearly all Its marketable ' products. I on I